Why “XSLT” is being discussed
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If they were going to implement it themselves it would be unnecessary to faff around with webassembly. They could just keep the native code implementation that they already have…
by WJW · Oct 19, 2026
My thought wasn't so much "do XSLT parsing in Javascript" and more "compile a C program to apply XSLT transformations using emscriptem and embed that". You can probably throw th…
by jeroenhd · Oct 19, 2026
I think that the issue is not the XSLT implementation (that could be contained), but its deep intégration in the XML stack which is part of web pages processing. Think about XML…
by dolmen · Oct 19, 2026
In an XML document a "processing instruction" can trigger the XSLT processor to transform the document in another format. So an XML document would be parsed and processed by the…
by dolmen · Oct 18, 2026
No. Keep using XSLT server side.
by dolmen · Oct 18, 2026
you also need to get over the fact that this doesn't work while disabling javascript, while built in xslt doesn't need javascript. on the other hand though it's not a big loss g…
by em-bee · Oct 18, 2026
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XSLT, is a domain-specific declarative programming language that transforms text into text. Read more on Wikipedia